Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:39:48 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: ncb05@uow.edu.au Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: random data for operations in kernel Message-ID: <199810170239.TAA16560@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810160013480.18400-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> References: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810160013480.18400-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>
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In article <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810160013480.18400-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au>, Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> wrote: > What do people suggest would be the best way to derive a random value > for use in a system call? Are there any examples in the present kernel > source tree that perform this, or a similar operation? Sys/libkern has "random.c" with a function random(). Elsewhere there's the code implementing /dev/random. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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